Bill Conlogue: 2 books
Undermined in Coal Country
On the Measures in a Working Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Deep mining ended decades ago in Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna Valley. The barons who made their fortunes have moved on. Low wages and high unemployment haunt the area, and the people left behind wonder whether to stay or seek their fortunes elsewhere.
Bill Conlogue explores how two overlapping...
Here and There
Reading Pennsylvania's Working Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
The global economy threatens the uniqueness of places, people, and experiences. In Here and There, Bill Conlogue tests the assumption that literature and local places matter less and less in a world that economists describe as “flat,” politicians believe has “globalized,” and social scientists...